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Goodall on the Rose Parade wave, football and honoring the earth
As grand marshal of the 124th Tournament of Roses Parade, British primatologist Jane Goodall got the grandest possible tour of Colorado Boulevard on New Year’s Day. Best known for her decades-long studies of chimpanzee behavior in the wilds of...
Tags: Festive Events, Football, Sports, England, Human Rights
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Rowan Williams, leader of Church of England, leaving office
The head of the Church of England is leaving office after a decade as the spiritual leader of the world's 80 million-strong Anglican Communion. Rowan Williams, the 104th archbishop of Canterbury, will be replaced by 56-year-old former oil executive...
Tags: Anglicanism, Canterbury, Christianity, Religion and Belief
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Venture capital didn't build that
Can government play a positive role in economic development? To understand who built what in the construction of the American economy from its pre-industrial origins, a look at one of the drivers of U.S. innovation — venture capital — is...
Tags: New Products, Computer Networking and Internet, Productivity, Korean War (1950-1953), Weather
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A single day of overindulgence: Hours off your life?
The risks of bad behaviors are well known but not necessarily well understood. Most people are aware that binging on red meat, cigarettes and whiskey on a regular basis isn't good for us -- but how to make sense of the severity of the risk? When a...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Hamburgers, Holidays, Newspaper and Magazine, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Caltech tops list of world's universities
L.A. NOWThe California Institute of Technology once again tops the ranks of the world’s best research universities, while University of California campuses at Berkeley and Los Angeles maintained their top 20 positions despite massive state funding cuts to... -
Caltech named best research university in the world -- again
L.A. NOWOnce again, the California Institute of Technology is ranked the best in the world. The Pasadena institution retained its ranking as the world’s best research university in the 2012-13 World University Rankings released this week by the Times Higher... -
What do you call a male mistress?
If Paula Broadwell is David H. Petraeus' mistress, what is he to her? Biography subject, sure. Boyfriend, maybe. But what's the male equivalent of "mistress"? The growing cast of extremely prolific characters (30,000 pages of email!) in the Petraeus...Tags: Paula Broadwell, Adultery, Education, David Petraeus, Colleges and Universities
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In Our Opinion: Noem, Dennert ads miss their marks
Two ill-advised campaign ads have us wondering, "what were they thinking?" A video supporting Rep. Kristi Noem went viral online over the weekend, but not in the way Noem and the state GOP intended. (See video below) The two-and-a-half-minute-long...Tags: Kristi Noem, Elections, Republican Party, YouTube, Politics
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Dennis Avery dies at 71; heir to label fortune, philanthropist
Dennis Avery, who used his share of a family fortune to fund philanthropic ventures around the world and to commission artistic replicas of prehistoric creatures for a quirky sculpture garden in the desert of Borrego Springs, has died. He was 71. Avery...
Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Arts, Tony Perry, Lawyers, AIDS
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Yahoo's password hack shows that it failed security 101
If it wasn't clear before, it certainly is now: Your username and password are almost impossible to keep safe. Nearly 443,000 e-mail addresses and passwords for a Yahoo site were exposed late Wednesday. The impact stretched beyond Yahoo because the...
Tags: eHarmony, Yahoo! Inc., Theft, LinkedIn Corp., AOL LLC
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Experts: Boeing 787 may be vulnerable to cyber-attack
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsThe 787 Dreamliner is Boeing's newest and most technologically advanced aircraft. It may also be its most vulnerable. Experts at the University of Cambridge in Great Brtiain have discovered what they say is a "back door" in a computer chip. The experts...Tags: Actel Corporation
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Sir Andrew Huxley dies at 94; Nobel-winning physiologist
Sir Andrew Huxley, the British researcher who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of how nerve impulses are transmitted through cells, died May 30. He was 94. His death was announced by the University of Cambridge'...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Science and Technology, Electronics, Applied Physics
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